stop smoking
Cigarette Smoking means you are giving to yourself a slow poison treatment. Cigarette smoking does not only affect the smoker’s health but also affects the nearby standing individual like your kids as their organs are on developing stage.
Some people are under false impression and take cigarette smoking as a hobby. According to recent studies conducted by AMA, American Cancer society and the American Lung and Heart Associations, cigarette smoking is one of the main causes of premature death.
Effects of Smoking
Cigarette smoking is the main agent of avoidable and premature death rate. Cigarette smoking results in one in five deaths in United States. The data shows the deaths of over 400,000 people from 1995 to 1999 in U.S per year.
Life Expectancy
Cigarette smoking acts as a catalyzing agent in coronary heart diseases, lung cancer and chronic airway obstruction. If we exclude adult deaths, which are commonly a result of secondhand smoking, we see that both adult females and males have reduced their life expectancy by around 13 to14 years.
Approximately 6.4 million children will loose their lives prematurely, if this pace of consummation of tobacco goes on in this way.
Cardiovascular Disease Lung diseases
Annually, economy has to undergo the expenditure of over $100 billions in health care costs, which results in productivity loss including the medical expenses and death rate. Cigarette smoking has direct relation to the sources causing the chronic bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer.
Cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of the death in U.S, which is again to some extent, is an outcome of the tobacco use. A survey revealed that the deaths of 85000 men who died of the lung cancer and 65000 women who died of lung and bronchus diseases.